![]() ![]() 1 The story is told from the point of view of the 73-year-old hero, Chactas, whose story is preserved. In certain sheltered spots, the myrtle and the rose-bay flourish in the open air, as in Greece figs ripen, as in Provence and every apple tree, bursting with carmine flowers, looks like the big bouquet of a village bride. Atala, ou Les Amours de deux sauvages dans le dsert ( English: Atala, or The Loves of two Indian savages in the desert) is an early novella by French author Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand, first published on 12 germinal IX (2 April 1801). All the world teems with bees and birds hives and nests interrupt the child’s every footstep. The hedges, along which strawberries, raspberries, and violets grow, are adorned with hawthorn, honeysuckle, and brambles whose brown, curving shoots burst forth with magnificent fruits and leaves. The clearings are feathered with tall and elegant ferns the fields of gorse and broom blaze with flowers that one may take at first glance for golden butterflies. ![]() The earth is covered over with daisies, pansies, jonquils, daffodils, hyacinths, buttercups, and anemones, like the wastelands around San Giovanni of Laterano and the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome. ![]() I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. François-René de Chateaubriand, né à Saint-Malo le 4 septembre 1768 et mort à Paris le 4 juillet 1848, est un écrivain, mémorialiste et homme politique français. The five birds that herald its appearance-the swallow, the oriole, the cuckoo, the quail, and the nightingale-arrive with the breezes that refuge in the bays of the Armorican peninsula. Love decreases when it ceases to increase. “Spring, in Brittany, is milder than spring in Paris, and bursts into flower three weeks earlier. ![]()
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